One way to deconstruct the Manic Pixie Dream Girl (see also Wikipedia): the Manic Pixie Prostitute (more-or-less SFW). Or maybe I mean "satirize." Either way.
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Via Metafilter, where there's also good discussion in the comments. (Yes, this sometimes happens on the Internets.)
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Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it
Date: 21 May 2013 08:44 pm (UTC)who needs one-stop shopping?
Date: 21 May 2013 10:13 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 22 May 2013 07:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 22 May 2013 02:29 pm (UTC)---L.
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Date: 22 May 2013 03:16 pm (UTC)Ooh - ooh - what about Eppie in Silas Marner?
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Date: 22 May 2013 03:57 pm (UTC)(I confess I remember very, very little of SM from high school -- it stuffed it into the same mental box as Ethan Frome and padlocked hard.)
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Manic Street Pixies
Date: 22 May 2013 03:51 pm (UTC)Manic Street Pixies
Date: 22 May 2013 03:52 pm (UTC)Manic Street Pixies
Date: 22 May 2013 04:53 pm (UTC)